"Commentary from P.M. Carpenter"

June 16, 2017

Trump's idiocracy

Donald Trump, the eternal victim:

This idiotic tweet was "liked" by about 30,000 idiots in 57 minutes. And idiots they are, since not only is Trump asking them to believe that a president of the United States was ordered by a deputy attorney general to fire an FBI director, they do believe it. Or, within in an hour, at least tens of thousands of them believed it and liked it.

One might think that most of these idiots would have instantly flashed back to Trump's statement of little more than a month ago. "I was going to fire Comey — my decision," said Trump to NBC News' Lester Holt on May 11. "I was going to fire regardless of recommendation." But had the idiots indeed flashed back to that statement, they wouldn't have liked today's tweet, and thus they wouldn't be idiots, which is to say, Trump-likers.

About them, you were bound to notice, I have intentionally referenced idiocy. And about that, there has raged quite a debate. Should sane, reasonably informed Americans refer to Trump's base as a bunch of idiots? Won't this alienate the idiots? And about that — that debate, that is — I have always been puzzled.

First I am puzzled as to why the opposition would ever want to appeal to idiots. Second I am perplexed by the underlying notion that Trumpian idiots could ever be attracted to a reasonable opposition. Third — and this is the clincher — I'm utterly bewildered by the argument that the opposition shouldn't call Trump's base idiotic, when Trump himself treats them like idiots by tweeting idiotic tweets such as "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director."

More than anyone, Trump appreciates just how idiotic his base is. They're so idiotic, he treats them with outward, wholesale contempt. He rubs their noses in it. He wallows in it overtly. And they like it, because they're idiots. If it's OK for Trump to essentially label them as idiots, why is it wrong for the opposition to explicitly do the same?

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Trump's idiocracy

Donald Trump, the eternal victim:

This idiotic tweet was "liked" by about 30,000 idiots in 57 minutes. And idiots they are, since not only is Trump asking them to believe that a president of the United States was ordered by a deputy attorney general to fire an FBI director, they do believe it. Or, within in an hour, at least tens of thousands of them believed it and liked it.

One might think that most of these idiots would have instantly flashed back to Trump's statement of little more than a month ago. "I was going to fire Comey — my decision," said Trump to NBC News' Lester Holt on May 11. "I was going to fire regardless of recommendation." But had the idiots indeed flashed back to that statement, they wouldn't have liked today's tweet, and thus they wouldn't be idiots, which is to say, Trump-likers.

About them, you were bound to notice, I have intentionally referenced idiocy. And about that, there has raged quite a debate. Should sane, reasonably informed Americans refer to Trump's base as a bunch of idiots? Won't this alienate the idiots? And about that — that debate, that is — I have always been puzzled.

First I am puzzled as to why the opposition would ever want to appeal to idiots. Second I am perplexed by the underlying notion that Trumpian idiots could ever be attracted to a reasonable opposition. Third — and this is the clincher — I'm utterly bewildered by the argument that the opposition shouldn't call Trump's base idiotic, when Trump himself treats them like idiots by tweeting idiotic tweets such as "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director."

More than anyone, Trump appreciates just how idiotic his base is. They're so idiotic, he treats them with outward, wholesale contempt. He rubs their noses in it. He wallows in it overtly. And they like it, because they're idiots. If it's OK for Trump to essentially label them as idiots, why is it wrong for the opposition to explicitly do the same?